"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

A basic error at the core of the gay-rights crusade in recent years is what I call the Desire Is Destiny Fallacy, wherein all sexual desires are self-legitimizing — a human right — and any opposition to or criticism of anyone’s desire is an infringement of their personal autonomy.

We are told that everyone is morally obligated to pursue the fulfillment of their wildest personal fantasies, and that it is oppressive to expect them to restrain their appetites. Thus, anyone who feels same-sex attraction but does not act on that attraction is said to be a “closet case,” afflicted with psychological “hang-ups,” a sexual phony who is condemned as a sort of collaborator with the anti-gay regime.

The flaw in this twisted logic becomes apparent when we transfer the paradigm to the sphere of aberrant heterosexual behavior.

Heterosexual perversity involves appetites which, according to the Desire Is Destiny Fallacy, are every bit as “legitimate” as same-sex attraction. Yet who would make excuses for Hugo Schwyzer or Anthony Weiner? Certainly not me, even though their particular interests fall within the same heterosexual category as whatever disorderly impulses may lurk beneath my own blandly normal life. What might any of us do, if there were a powerful political movement urging us to do it, and defending our right to do whatever we wished?

The majority of cases of sexual harassment, molestation, and abuse are perpetrated by people who also have consensual sexual behaviors. It’s the people who claim “they just want to love each other” (LGBTs) or who claim “I just want to have consensual sex” who do a lot of the harm and violence in the sphere of sexuality today. Once a person believes they should pursue any sexual kick that pops up in their minds — because they have labeled everything “normal” — it doesn’t matter to them if they are doing harm, because they no longer care about how deformed and harmful their minds are. They believe any sexual attitude and behavior is legitimate and normal, and this takes precedence over everything else, including the rights of others not to be harmed.

Dehumanizing Sex: A basic error at the core of the gay-rights crusade in recent years is what I call the Desir… http://t.co/ZbhQJJvum2

Quartermaster September 27th, 2013 @ 11:37 am

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” Proverbs 14:34.
Our society has proven this beyond doubt.

RS September 27th, 2013 @ 12:25 pm

The word “dehumanize” is the perfect verb to describe what’ happening. Once you deny what’s unique in the Human Condition, specifically the soul, humans become merely one of any number of species, who are governed only by instincts. The fallacy, of course, is that there are any number of behaviors in which we could engage, which would make us “feel” good, outside the realm of sex. Enshrining instincts, whether innate or learned, under realm of “rights,” is a certain recipe for the destruction of civilization.

Make my words, polygamy being a recognized and legal institution is only a generation away at this point. And it won’t be because of Mormons; it will be because we “don’t dare discriminate” against Muslims.